RHB Blog

Dave Howlett, Founder of realhumanbeing.org discusses job hunting and interviewing the RHB way with Dave Wilkins, Security Architect for the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care.

If you're on Linked In – you likely have a reason: – to find a job, client, talent, or to seek out investors – to keep in touch with key people However many people will not accept your invitation to connect because they don't know you that well and are reluctant to vouch for you [...]

Brenda Lewis, a RHB and talented Jazz Vocalist had recently posted this beautiful photograph on her Facebook page. It reminded me of when I taught scuba diving in St. Kitts, Caribbean. I was in my twenties and we had a small operation on South Frigate Beach. The tourists would head out snorkeling and often they [...]

I don't make good guys, I just find them. This week I accompanied my wife as she was shoe shopping at Holt Renfrew in Toronto. I'm fascinated by the luxury brand market, its target market and the challenges of selling luxury items in these turbulent economic times. I struck up a conversation with Mr. Francesco [...]

Yesterday I listed to AM 640 radio in Toronto. The host was asking listeners to call in and "tell us what you did when someone parked too close to you, did you leave a note or worse?" Some of the responses:- "I let the air out of their tires" – "I left a nice 4 [...]

It is Remembrance Day. Many people in Canada are wearing a poppy to honour those who have fallen in war. And so I must ask: what do I fight? Canadians fought the Germans, the Koreans, the Vietnamese, the Chinese. Some became friends and trading partners, some became enemies again, but then they were friends again. [...]

One of Canada's largest IT companies has hired our consulting team to help them create a Real Human Being Customer Service culture. Two weeks ago, one of their employees arrived at a meeting slightly stressed; Trish had just gotten off the phone with the principal of her son's school. Her 8 year old son has [...]

Dave, I've been experiencing a little anxiety about typing this up. I believe mainly it is my inherent desire to not show anybody in a "bad" light. I tend to really like to focus on people's good qualities and at least try to understand some of the not-so-good. I think if we can understand or [...]

Setting: Downtown Toronto, northbound lane at Jarvis and Shuter Streets to be exact. Time: Prime of rush hour.   Scenario: My car decides it's had enough of the heat and dies. D.E.A.D. Subsequent Events: 1. With sheer momentum, I roll to the only place I can to avoid blocking the main lanes of traffic, which I [...]

[ A note from a RHB Mikelle Archer of Landmark ASP -  Mikelle is one of the designers for the new RHB eCourse] This last week has been a rough one here.  We are currently preparing for a flood in the area [Sioux City, Iowa].  The dams up north have been releasing record amounts of [...]